[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

[David Carollo]

Red sleeve is an ARM port.
http://www.redsleeve.org
On Jan 18, 2014 3:28 PM, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Complicated is a good word...
> >
> >>   But, the bigger question is where it leaves us if
> >> they just decide to quit after assimilating most of the related
> >> systems under a build ecosystem that no one else can reproduce easily.
> >>
> > There is no secret sauce to the buildsystem.  It's not like we're
> > converting TRS-80 Model II TRSDOS files to LS-DOS or anything here,
> > where things aren't well-documented or completely undocumented.
>
> Hey, I could have done that with my eyes closed and in z80 code.  But
> those were simpler times.
>
> > I have reproduced to an extent the buildsystem for CentOS 5 on IA64, and
> > with a little nudging in the right direction by some folks I was able to
> > figure it out.  The hard part, as as been said I don't know how many
> > times, is getting the x.0's first tree's dependency tree and build
> > sequence correct with the buildroot populated with a good starter set of
> > packages (and this is very well documented in the Fedora documentation).
> >
> > Anyway, the current work with seven.centos.org is a really good start.
>
> I hope someone manages an ARM build eventually.  It would be fun to
> play with cheap hardware and reliable code.
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
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